The Great Quotes thread

[pueblo]

“The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way.”

― Heraclitus

[pueblo]

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[pueblo]

[pueblo]

"Since each of us were several, there's already quite a crowd."

- Guiles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus

'And he spoke to me and said, "I am you and you are I, and wherever you are, I am there, and in all things am I sown. And from wherever you wish, you gather me, and when you gather me, you gather yourself."'

- Gospel of Eve, in Epiphanius, Panarion 26.3.1

In the case of people who are setting out on a road with which they are unacquainted, it is sufficient merely to point out the direction. After this they must walk and find out the rest for themselves.

- Clement of Alexandria Str. 4.2.4.3

[Sue (Ayt)]

This quote is always relevant to keep in mind, as we consciously chose to act rather than re-act. (sometimes it's a challenge, though!)

[Karen (Geophyz)]

"The one who plants trees, knowing that he or she will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Rabindranath Tagore

[Eva2]

I will not tell you
What it looks like
Because then
You will assume that
You know
What you are looking for.
You cannot know it
You can only
Be it and
This being is without cause.
So what is left
For you to do?
wu'hsin

[The Moss Trooper]

These words from Haruki Murakami's South of the Border, West of the Sun are some of the most beautiful ever committed to print......... I sometimes struggle to read them without becoming emotional.

For anyone who has loved and lost.......

Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star.
 
It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.

Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more.

Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

[Bill Ryan]

We wouldn't let our enemies have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

Joseph Stalin

[justntime2learn]

Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality ~ Neil Peart

[pueblo]

"We ought not to be ashamed of appreciating the truth and of acquiring it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant and nations different from us…”

– Abu Yusuf Ya’qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi (c. 800-866)

[pueblo]

"There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen."

- Rumi

[Eva2]

'I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.'
Mahatma Gandhi

[edina]

"Life in its manifestation is vibration.
Electricity is vibration.
But vibration that is creative is one thing.
Vibration that is destructive is another.
Yet they are from the same source."

Edgar Cayce reading 1861-16

This is interesting, Tesla said something similar.

[pueblo]

..... WS or not WS, that is the question

[Kryztian]

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group.”
- - Franklin D. Roosevelt


“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
- - Benito Mussolini


“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
- - Carl Sagan

[chocolate milk]

“This life's five windows of the soul.
Distort the heavens from pole to pole.
And teach us to believe a lie.
When we see with, not through, the eye." ~William Blake

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is not ignorance, it is the Illusion of Knowledge."
- Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

[Eva2]

Thought this was a pertinent quote for the times:


'Any society that cannot tolerate those who choose to peacefully live outside of its control is an insecure society. All governments mandate obedience for the illusion of security. But in truth, the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are really the same thing.
To hold your breath is to lose your breath. To cling to life is to lose touch with it. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-holding contest in which everyone is stressed, neurotic, and enslaved to the delusion that “with enough control and obedience, we will finally know peace and freedom' Humberto Braga

[Eva2]